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Variety. Gene Vidal, a onetime Army flyer who looks like an Indian, was born 38 years ago in Madison, S. Dak. His father, a railway engineer, sent him to the State university to study engineering. Though physically lazy, brawny Gene Vidal became a crack athlete, won letters in football, baseball, basketball, track. Entering West Point in 1916 he won still greater kudos. Coaches' fight talks bored him. Once, during time-out in the middle of a furious Army-Navy game, he shocked his teammates by calmly asking where the football dinner was to be held that night. But sport...
Died. Richard Beatty Mellon, 75, financier, charitarian, president of Pittsburgh's Mellon National Bank, younger brother of Andrew William Mellon; of pneumonia; in Pittsburgh. Sons of canny old Thomas Mellon, young Richard and young Andrew took a lucrative flyer in lumber, skipped nimbly into their father's bank, which became Mellon National in 1902, today has resources of $236,000,000. They reached for oil, coal, aluminum, railroads, power, glass, made profits and plowed them back, built up an $8,000,000,000 empire. When Brother Andrew became Secretary of the Treasury, Richard took hold of both reins...
...night storm to Paris, where Colonel Lindbergh has not been since his 1927 flight. He showed Mrs. Lindbergh the tablet erected at Le Bourget on the spot where he landed, stunted at Villacoublay in an acrobatic plane, visited the Air Ministry's experimental laboratory. Premier Albert Sarraut, Atlantic Flyer Dieudonne Coste and Louis Bleriot entertained them at dinners. After brief trips to the Fokker airplane plant at Amsterdam, The Hague, the League of Nations headquarters in Geneva, they doubled back toward Lisbon. Forced down by fog off the coast of Spain, they came ashore in a little fishing village...
...ride in the three-wheeled, streamlined Dymaxion automobile which Gulf Refining Co. had been driving around Chicago for publicity. Luckily for him, he did not ride at the same time as two of his Graf passengers, Col. William Francis Forbes-Sempill. Master of Sempill, British soldier and flyer; and Charles Dolfuss, attache of the French Air Ministry. Speeding them out to Chicago's airport to rejoin the Graf, the Dymaxion skidded and overturned near Soldier Field, killed its driver Francis T. Turner, badly injured the two passengers...
...Russian army air service, which lately sent stratonauts higher than any had flown before (TIME. Oct. 9), last week dropped a flyer farther than any man had ever dropped. The man dropped was a pilot named Victor Evceyef. Swaddled in heavy clothes with an oxygen mask over his face and a parachute over his stern, Evceyef went up with a comrade from Moscow Airdrome. Mile after mile the plane climbed, into atmosphere -34° F. At 4½ mi. Pilot Evceyef jumped. Instead of opening his 'chute, he plummeted for more than two minutes until he was only...